The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Volume II Part 238

The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Volume II Part 238

_Note._--This volume contains a reprint of a volume of proofs endorsed 'Coleridge's MSS. Corrected Copy of a Work'--'Mr. Cottle's', and a facsimile reproduction of three MSS., with the original erasures and alternative readings. The volume of proofs formerly in the possession of J. d.y.k.es Campbell was reproduced by him, and he added the facsimile of the MSS. in the British Museum which he had deciphered and prepared for publication. Four years after his death the sheets were bound up and published with an elucidatory preface by Mr. W. Hale White. A copy of this literary curiosity as it was left by Mr. Campbell, without the Preface, is in the possession of the Editor.

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CHRISTABEL By Samuel Taylor Coleridge Ill.u.s.trated by a Facsimile of the Ma.n.u.script And by Textual and other Notes By Ernest Hartley Coleridge Hon. F.R.S.L. London: Henry Frowde MCMVII. [8{o}, pp. ix + 113.

_Note._--The Frontispiece is a photogravure (by Emery Walker) of a pastel drawing of S. T. Coleridge aet. 26. The Collotype Facsimile (thirty-eight leaves unpaged) is inserted between pp. 53 and 54. The text, as collated with three MSS., two transcriptions, and the First Edition, &c., is on pp. 61-96; a Bibliographical Index [Appendix IV] on pp. 111-113. This Edition (dedicated to the Poet's grand-daughters Edith and Christabel Rose Coleridge) was issued by Henry Frowde at the expense of the Royal Society of Literature.

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THE POEMS OF COLERIDGE With An Introduction By Ernest Hartley Coleridge And Ill.u.s.trations By Gerald Metcalfe John Lane The Bodley Head London, W. John Lane Company New York.

[8{o}, pp. x.x.xi + 460 + Index to the Poems [461]-466 + Index to First Lines [469]-477.]

_Note._--The Ill.u.s.trations consist of twenty-three full-page ill.u.s.trations, together with numerous headings, tailpieces, and vignettes. The Contents include all poems previously published which were not subject to the law of copyright:--'The Walk Before Supper', 'The Reproof and Reply', and 'Sancti Dominici Pallium' were printed for the first time from the original MSS.

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THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER. By Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ill.u.s.trated by Twenty-Five Poetic and Dramatic Scenes, Designed and Etched By David Scott, Member of the Scottish Academy of Painting. Edinburgh: Alexander Hill, 50, Princes Street; Ackermann & Co. London. M. DCCC. x.x.xVII.

[Folio.

_Note._--Text with marginal glosses in Gothic letters, pp. [5]-25 + twenty-four full-page etchings unpaged, preceded by an ill.u.s.trated t.i.tle-page. Scenes from Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, By David Scott, S.A. [Etching of the Ancient Mariner on a storm-tost coast ringing a bell, with a motto (_from Kubla Khan_) "All who saw would cry Beware", COLERIDGE.] Edinburgh Published By Alex{r}. Hill, 50 Princes Street 1837. The cloth binding is embellished with a vignette--a lyre encircled by a winged serpent.

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COLERIDGE'S RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER Ill.u.s.trated by J. Noel Paton, R.S.A. Art Union of London 1863 [W. H. M{c}Farlane Lithog{r} Edinburgh]

[Oblong Folio.

_Note._--The text, pp. [1]-12, is followed by twenty full-page ill.u.s.trations. The t.i.tle-page and cloth binding are embellished with a symbolic vignette--a cross-bow, with twisted snake, resting on a cross encircled with stars.

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THE POETICAL WORKS of Samuel T. Coleridge Edited, with a Critical Memoir, By William Michael Rossetti. Ill.u.s.trated By Thomas Seccombe.

London: E. Moxon, Son, & Co., Dover Street. [8{o}, pp. x.x.xii + 424.

_Note._--In a Note affixed to the 'Prefatory Notice' the Editor states that this edition includes all Coleridge's 'Dramas . . . with the exception of _Zapolya_. In lieu of this _The Fall of Robespierre_, which has never as yet been reprinted in England, is introduced.'

FOOTNOTES:

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Felix curarum &c.

. . . . . . . . . . . . Nos otia vitae Solamur cantu, ventosaque gaudia famae Quaerimus.

STATIUS, _Silvarum_ lib. iv, iv, ll. 46-51.

[1135:2] The following Advertis.e.m.e.nt was issued on a separate sheet:--

London, April 16. / _This day was Published._ / Printed on Wove Paper, and Hot-Pressed, / Price 5_s._ in Boards,--Fools-cap 8 vo. / POEMS / ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, by / S. T. COLERIDGE, / Late of Jesus College, Cambridge. / [=London=]: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinsons, Pater-Noster Row, and / J. Cottle, Bookseller, Bristol; and to be had of the / PUBLISHERS of the WATCHMAN / 1796. /

[1136:1] From 'An Evening Address to a Nightingale', by Cuthbert Shaw--Anderson's _British Poets_, xi. 564.

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'Why may not LANGHORNE, simple in his lay, _Effusion_ on _Effusion_, pour away?'

_The Candidate_, ll. 41-2.

[1140:1] The ancient little Wits wrote many poems in the shape of Eggs, Altars, and Axes. (_MS. Note by S. T. C._)

[1140:2] The t.i.tle of the volume is 'Sonnets and Odes, by Henry Francis Cary. Author of an Irregular Ode to General Elliot. London 1787.'

Lines 6-9 of the Sonnet read thus:--

From him deriv'd who shun'd and spurn'd the throng And warbled sweet, thy Brooks and streams among, Lonely Valclusa! and that heir of Fame Our English Milton--

Line 14 reads:--

A grandeur, grace and spirit all their own.

The Poems were the first publication of 'Dante' Cary, then a boy of fifteen, whom Coleridge first met at Muddiford in October, 1816, and whose translation of the _Divina Commedia_ he helped to make famous.

[1141:1] The three Sonnets of Bowles are not in any Edition since the last quarto pamphlet of his Sonnets. (_MS. Note by S. T. C._)

[1144:1] Ossian.

[1146:1] Compare _The Pursuits of Literature_, Dialogue 1, lines 50, 55, 56.

The self-supported melancholy Gray

With his high spirit strove the master bard, And was his own _exceeding great_ reward.

The first Dialogue was published in May 1794. The lines on Gray may have suggested Coleridge's quotation from Genesis, chap. xv, ver. 1, which is supplied in a footnote to line 56.

[1150:1] The 'Eolian Harp', with the t.i.tle 'Effusion x.x.xv. Composed August 20, 1795, at Clevedon, Somersetshire', was first published in 1796, and included as 'Composed at Clevedon' in 1797 and 1803. It is possible that it may have been originally printed in a newspaper.

[1150:2] The fourth and last edition of the _Lyrical Ballads_ was issued in 1805.

[1151:1] The List numbers thirty, and of these not more than twenty are strictly speaking _Errata_. Of the remainder the greater number are textual corrections, emendations, and afterthoughts.

[1151:2] The allusion is to the prolonged and embittered controversy between Coleridge and his friends at Bristol, who had printed his works and advanced him various sums of money on the security of the sheets as printed and the future sale of the works when published. They were angry with him for postponing completion of these works, and keeping them out of their money, and he was naturally and reasonably indignant at the excessive sum charged for paper and printing. The fact was that they had done and intended to do him a kindness, but that in so far as it was a business transaction he suffered at their hands.

[1151:3] The t.i.tle of these Iambic lines is 'Relictis Aliis Studiis Philosophiam Epicuream amplect.i.tur'.